When I have a breakfast meeting in SF, I prefer to take the 7a “Baby Bullet” from San Jose to San Francisco, as it avoids traffic and I can read to draft work on the way in. It’s very convenient and comfortable.
What I can’t do is sleep on the train, which you can see is the way these other folks, obviously commuters, use the time:
Simplification is a watchword for my 2016. When writing for customers, clients and even shareholders, I’ll keep George Orwell’s six simple guidelines for writers to follow, as specified in Politics and the English language: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use…
Dogs have enriched my life from my earliest memories right until today. I hope you all have had great experiences with our canine friends. I sure have.
In seventh grade Shop class, I tackled an ambitious project: building a working “pump lamp.” Squaring wood, bending copper, drilling precise holes, even wiring a bulb—I learned craftsmanship one mistake at a time. That experience taught me lessons in patience, problem-solving, and how things fit together that I’ve carried ever since.
Debi and I both like artworks from the Impressionist period – and we’ve gone out of our way to see many of the exhibitions of those paintings, from the fine collection at the Metropolitan Museum in New York to the even more impressive collection at the Barnes Foundation in suburban Philadelphia. (We were totally blown…
Up early, stalking the wild iPad 2 — which is in such short supply that you have to line up before the store opens to see if you can get one when the store opens at 9 AM. These folks were the first in line at the Palo Alto store, on University Avenue, and they…
I was recently introduced to the concept of a “Quake book” — a book that changed the way you looked at things in a profound and persistant way. As one blogger characterized his concept derived from a conversation between polymath Tyler Cowen and Ryan Holiday … Every once in a while, I stumble across something…
